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• • June 7, 2011 at 6:45 am #59793
    Chuck Nigash

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    I am working in a Citrix environment in which the startup preferences for Shortcuts & Workspace are forgotten each time. They're there but don't load. Can a script be run to activate both?

  • June 9, 2011 at 7:38 am #59816
    Kasyan Servetsky

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    You can apply a workspace like so:

    app.applyWorkspace(“Advanced”);

    However, as far as I know, it's impossible to load shortcuts by script.

    Kas

  • June 9, 2011 at 7:40 am #59817
    Chuck Nigash

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    Thanks, Kas, I'll try that.

  • June 11, 2011 at 8:48 am #59826
    John Hawkinson

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    Huh, I didn't know about that. There certainl seems to be a parallel, app.applyShortcutSet().

    Though I admit my inclination would be to move aorund the preference file that stores these, which is to say fix the Citrix install's fresh copy of it. Not that I've done that, so there might be hidden gotchas.

  • June 11, 2011 at 10:28 am #59827
    Kasyan Servetsky

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    Oops! I'm sorry for the confusion. I still work mostly in CS3, but the applyShortcutSet method is available only in CS5. How could I miss it? It's just one line above the applyWorkspace which I mentioned in my previous post. Thank you for correcting me, John.

  • June 11, 2011 at 9:48 pm #59841
    Chuck Nigash

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    Hey guys, thanks. You are studs!!

    Here is the script and it works great, for anyone whomever needs this. Pay attention to syntax, if you use this.

    main();

    funtion main()}

    app.applyWorkspace(“namehere”);

    app.applyShortcutSet(“namehere”);

    }

    17 thank you's, Chuck

  • June 13, 2011 at 10:39 am #59847
    Chuck Nigash

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    Postscript:

    In CS3, the app.applyShortcutSet indeed fails. So I wanted to dampen my earlier excitement a wee bit. Still, a very good thing to know. Are there other “app.apply” scripts to reference for automation?

  • June 17, 2011 at 1:20 am #59872
    Kasyan Servetsky

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    There's one more method: applyMenuCustomization (“namehere”); which applies the specified menu customization set.

    Actually, you can do by script almost everything you can do manually in InDesign. I recommend you to download an InDesign scripting reference by Jongware where you can find all information about the objects their properties and methods (commands).

  • June 17, 2011 at 6:59 am #59873
    Chuck Nigash

    Member

    Thank you, Kas, again.

    I tried this and didn't get it to work, but am now reading Jongware's CS3 scripting reference to thread this needle. It really is the bible of scripting for InDesign. The guy is just amazing.

    Chuck

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